Lindell and I were driving to and from errands, me lost in my thoughts about the day, and Lindell playing with my phone in the backseat. The car streamed music over Bluetooth, but because Lindell had the phone and it was on shuffle, I had no control over which tracks would come on next. The smartphone was shuffling through all 300-something songs in my library, many of them I hadn’t heard in years.

A suspicious package found near Naval Sea Systems Command in downtown Bremerton closed Fourth Street between Park and Warren Avenues Monday morning and brought out a team from the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal Detachment. This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

An internal Washington State Ferries investigation into an August 15 sailing of the Cathlamet from Bremerton to Seattle, which was called back in order to unload 484 passengers, reveals that the boat wasn’t actually over capacity.

A Sept. 10 letter signed by Bremerton City Council President Greg Wheeler and Mayor Patty Lent was sent to developer Ron Ragge, manager of Gold Mountain Capital, LLC. The entire letter was comprised of only three sentences that pushed citizen opposition and city disinterest in supporting the development of a casino at a location on Callow Avenue.

In 2012, my three sons and I hosted 52 weekly dinners to fill Dustin’s empty seat at the dinner table while he was on a yearlong deployment. In 2013, our story came out as the book “Dinner with the Smileys” (SITE: www.dinnerwiththesmileys.com). Last week, it was released in paperback.

This fall, the people will lead where state and federal officials have not. Come Election Day, voters across Washington state will approve Initiative 594, a grassroots-led effort to require background checks on the sale of guns.

A Sept. 10 letter signed by Bremerton City Council President Greg Wheeler and Mayor Patty Lent was sent to developer Ron Ragge, manager of Gold Mountain Capital, LLC. The entire letter was comprised of only three sentences that pushed citizen opposition and city disinterest in supporting the development of a casino at a location on Callow Avenue.